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Surnames of Galician language origin. ... (name) Cardoso (surname) Carpinteiro; Carrasco (surname) ... This page was last edited on 5 July 2014, ...
She has collaborated in the preparation of the Classification of the 10 most popular names in Galicia (2000–2015). She coordinates the preparation of a large dictionary of Galician surnames, and also the Guía dos nomes galegos (Guide to Galician names). [4] She is a contributor to the magazines Verba and Cadernos da Lingua.
Garza – 335,829 – From Basque and Galician, Spanish meaning "heron", used as a descriptor or as part of a place name. Velásquez – 331,510 – Son of Velasco Estrada – 324,103 – From various places called Estrada, meaning "road", from Latin stata "via" denoting a paved way.
Saavedra is a Galician surname derived from places named Saavedra in the Ourense and Lugo provinces of Galicia, Spain. Saavedra consists of the Galician words saa, meaning "hall" (which comes from Gothic sals) and vedro, meaning "old". Related surnames include Saabedra, Sabedra, and Savedra. [1]
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Anxo Quintana, politician, former leader of the Galician Nationalist Block (Bloque Nacionalista Galego), the main Galician Nationalist party; Adolfo Suárez González (his father was from La Coruña), Spain's first democratically elected prime minister after the end of Francoist Spain; Xosé Manuel Beiras, politician, economist, writer and ...
This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent.. Unlike English surnames (but in the same way as Slavic, Lithuanian and Latvian surnames), all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female.
The names, primarily of East Germanic origin, were used by the Suebi, Goths, Vandals and Burgundians. With the names, the Galicians inherited the Germanic onomastic system; a person used one name (sometimes a nickname or alias), with no surname, occasionally adding a patronymic. More than 1,000 such names have been preserved in local records.